Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 18:20:02 -0700 (PDT) From: "Robert S. Miles" <rsm@spyder.ssw.com> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: kern/3260: FreeBSD 2.2.1 (and 2.2) npx0 boot problem on IBM Aptiva M71 Message-ID: <199704140120.SAA06991@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/3260; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Robert S. Miles" <rsm@spyder.ssw.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: rsm@spyder.ssw.com, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/3260: FreeBSD 2.2.1 (and 2.2) npx0 boot problem on IBM Aptiva M71 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 21:17:24 -0400 > > This problem does not occur with the 2.1.7 boot floppy, i.e. that does > > properly run "sysinstall" after autoconfig. > > > > Using NetBSD I was able to build custom FreeBSD kernels with which to > > diagnose the problem. Only when I excluded the npx0 device would the > > kernel stop hanging the machine. Subsequently, I discovered that the > > boot floppy's kernel can be made to work, either by disabling the npx0 > > device in CLI mode, or setting npx0 flags to 7 in CLI mode. > > This sounds like the same broken behavior we've seen on certain > laptops. Apparently, the new optimized-for-Pentium bcopy code works > great on 99.9% of the machines out there, and then there are a few on > which it just does not. Could you try setting the npx0 flags to > 1 and see if it still boots? That would at least point the finger > directly at the bcopy() code (7 turns off a number of optimized > features, not just bcopy()). > > If you are interested in debugging this, Bruce Evans is your man > <bde@freebsd.org> since he added the optimized code in the first > place. Thanks! Setting npx0 flags to 1 does the trick too, so it is the bcopy() code (or my hardware!) that's at fault. I will follow up with Bruce Evans to see if he is interested in diagnosing this further. Thanks for the quick response! -Bob
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